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i know that this is not quite in the right place but i do not know where else to post it and i think people who design editors would know best .My current PC is very slow so i am about to upgrade but now i do not know what i need . I want a PC that will let me play this game as fast as possible what specifications would you recomended? I am looking at computer with the following and this is off ebay what do you guys think?
INTEL 64BIT P4 3.0Ghz Power System
NEW 775Pin Prescott Core...Also 2MB L2 Cache!
(Also Comes With A Massive 2GB DDR400 RAM)
INTEL Pentium4 64BIT 3.0Ghz 775 Pin & 2MB L2 Cache 800Mhz FSB
ASRock 775VM800 Socket 775 Prescott Supported Motherboard
775 Pin Socket, 800Mhz FSB, DDR400, 8XAGP, ATA133 & SATA, 6xUSB2.0, 5.1 Sound
2GB DDR400 Major Branded RAM Major Brand For Ultra Stabilty
80GB Hard Drive ATA133, 7200 RPM Major Brand For Performance
16 X DVD+/-RW DUAL LAYER Drive Fastest DVDRW On The Market
6 x USB2 Ports, LAN Port & 5.1 Sound Plenty Of Ports
Real256E 3D Graphic controller Sharing Only 64MB Plus 8X AGP On Mobo
3.5'' Floppy Disk Drive Still Used & Still Included
NEW Stylish X-BLADE Case & 450W Silent PSU Door To keep PC silent.
The price of this is £321 how much would you say it is worth?
Having a good sized hard drive is important as well. 100gb+ is good but your PC is by all accounts, quite good.
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64bit system... Totally unnecessary at this point in time, because there aren't many applications that utilise it (generally high end apps such as Photoshop really do any justice for them). Plus the fact that you'd need Windows XP 64bit edition to even make the OS utilise it! Dual, triple, multi CPU systems are finally within the grasp of sticky fisted desktop geeks for the first time and I recommend that any person wanting a serious PC gets one of them.
Can't argue with the RAM here. It's fine.
You could always get a dual graphics card setup (SLI if I remember correctly). That would require another mobo however so it's pointless (to me, buying new mobo would make me think about just buying a new PC).
Definitely a good GPU is needed. Onboard graphics card not only sucks RAM but also buts strain on the system resources for its rendering. Graphical games would then not only have to do normal calculations but also need to render them as well.
A graphics card would be the easiest buy to make your system faster in my opinion and for £400, spending a little more (£100) would give you a very good system.
Finally, putting a price on this system... I would sell this system for anywhere between £400-£600. It's difficult to say because the graphics card is a real let down and spending only 100 quid on it could really boost its value to potential buyers.
Well, no. It wouldn't play it to its fastest. As I said, multi CPU's would be better to run FM at its fastest as, looking at various options in the game, FM is optimized to run on more than one CPU.
Saying that, 64 bit processors also fair well.
At the end of the day, for £350, you can't argue! Buy it, try it, if you don't like it, slap in a decent graphics card and sell it for a lot more! That way, you make money on it, and you will have a better idea of what you want!
Although I haven't tried it (FM06) on my office PC (pretty similar specs to that one, except only 1gb of RAM, slightly slower CPU and a 512mb GPU (unused by FM)) it ran well with FM05.
I paid just short of £900 for that PC last April (although it does have 2 x 300gb drives as well ) so I think you'll get your money's worth.
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